Indonesian Socialism.

By Muhammad Dudi Hari Saputra, UGM-Yogyakarta

Reading problems of socialism in Indonesia by H. Mohammad Hatta, made me more familiar with his thinking, I thought as if
plumbed Saint-Simon, Fourier, Robert Owen, Marx, Engels, Kautsky, Bernstein, Lenin, Oscar Lange and others.

Although the big names behind it, Hatta still be realistic and do not accept the views of "the west" as the doctrinaire

He took a stance beyond other thinkers when it receives a viewpoint, making it the only one of its paradigm, making it narrow
and rigid.

He warned that scientific socialism Marx is a natural process and dialectic (Naturprocess), not an imitation process or adoption.

Thus, the condition of Indonesian society is still agrarian and communal-traditional, yet ready to go into the community of
scientific socialism because capitalism has not been through yet.

Capitalist in here is the owner of the major individual and suck, not the small medium (infant).

Besides, the people acquainted with the culture of Indonesian economic cooperation and mutual assistance as the manifestation
of the Indonesian communal-traditional.

Different from "Western" society who is individualistic and interpreted economy as "competition", Indonesian society interprets
the communal economy as "collaboration/cooperation/koperasi" or "cooperative", so that individual work is a contribution to
society.

From this brief note we can understand that Hatta had "holistic/ comprehensive" thought. Thus, economic problems can not be
seen from the viewpoint of thinking or philosophical paradigm, but also must consider the condition (location) and habit
(habitus) of community, in addition to being realistic that if it is not profitable, should be thrown away.